“Training today was sharp and intense and the focus is there for the weekend,” Boogaard told local media on Wednesday.

“We want to finish the season off well and importantly we’re at home and want to give the home fans something to be proud of.

“With the ‘gaffer’ [Scott Miller] and ‘JP’ [Jean-Paul de Marigny] they are always going to be there to drive us and there is that motivation within the group anyway to make sure that we push right until the very end.

“That’s what it means to wear this badge. As soon as you take that field, regardless of whether there’s something to play for or not, you give everything you’ve got.

“That’s what this place is going to be about.

“Right until that last whistle of that last game we will be giving everything we can [because] it’s important for us to recognise that as soon as you put this shirt on you have got to give everything you’ve got,” he said.
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